Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech
published on 2024/09/15
Tech has become all Jobs and no Woz. As Dave Karpf rightly identifies, the hacker has vanished from the scene, to be replaced by an endless array of know-nothing hero founders whose main superpower is the ability to bully subordinates (and half of Twitter) into believing they are always right.
Our hero is always Dave Winer of scripting.com, one of the most prolific contributor to the web from blogging, RSS, podcasting, etc.